Remote Activation of Pop-Up Advertisements

[Jim Baltimore]

I recently experienced the pop-up advertisements, which
should hopefully soon be designated as illegal SPAM. I
also read the opsts, but after trying to excise
the "demon" myself. Now I do not know as to how accurate
my solution has been, and if I am wrong, could someone
point me in the right direction?

What I did was to simply change the Default
Profile/Object and password, and then change the service
activations for those services which allowed remote
access. I was thinking that the remote "alert" was being
created because the default profile is the same oout of
the box. If this was true, then it could be possible to
automate a remote call to send a message as the default
administrator for whichever service. So by changing the
account profile, should that not disable the pop-ups? I
understand that firewalls are more efficient in
protecting multiple ports, but wouldn't simply changing
all default profiles help to deter remote access to a
system or network?

If anyone might have any experience with what I am trying
to describe, I would greatly appreciate any input.

Jim

[Miha Pihler]

If you are receiving pop-ups on your PC this means anyone has access to your
PC from the Internet. You should use personal firewall. Any personal
firewall is better then none.

Changing your profile and setting a password won't solve pop-up problem. I
don't need any username and password to send them to you. All I need is
unprotected PC on the internet (PC without firewall)...

Read and follow instruction in the article
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/communicate/stopspam.asp[/url]

--
Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...

"Jim Baltimore" <audiodog@barebonesaudio.com> wrote in message
news:08c001c350e7$523f1840$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> I recently experienced the pop-up advertisements, which
> should hopefully soon be designated as illegal SPAM. I
> also read the opsts, but after trying to excise
> the "demon" myself. Now I do not know as to how accurate
> my solution has been, and if I am wrong, could someone
> point me in the right direction?
>
> What I did was to simply change the Default
> Profile/Object and password, and then change the service
> activations for those services which allowed remote
> access. I was thinking that the remote "alert" was being
> created because the default profile is the same oout of
> the box. If this was true, then it could be possible to
> automate a remote call to send a message as the default
> administrator for whichever service. So by changing the
> account profile, should that not disable the pop-ups? I
> understand that firewalls are more efficient in
> protecting multiple ports, but wouldn't simply changing
> all default profiles help to deter remote access to a
> system or network?
>
> If anyone might have any experience with what I am trying
> to describe, I would greatly appreciate any input.
>
> Jim